Post by the Scribe on Jul 18, 2020 14:19:12 GMT
Terror Lynching in America
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Our history of racial terror casts a shadow across the U.S. landscape. We must engage it more honestly.
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Conservatism has a long history of lynching mostly done while they inhabited and controlled the Democratic Party in the South. After 1965 these racists jumped ship to join the Republican Party who up until then had been controlled by globalists, corporatists and the wealthy. Today that transition is complete and that party has the worst of both worlds.
Looking Up and Up and Up
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July 3, 2020
The Equal Justice Initiative's Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Ala.
( Alana Casanova-Burgess / WNYC )
Paths converge in Montgomery, Alabama. At the intersection of Dexter, Court, and Commerce, for one example, Rosa Parks once sat before boarding a bus in 1955. It was at that same intersection that the Confederacy's Secretary of War sent a telegraph authorizing the attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. Today a plaque marks, along with all else that once stood here, the site of a market at a large fountain where Alabamans once bartered and haggled over captive human cargo.
And so it is here in Montgomery, the first capital of the Confederacy, that Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative has built two monuments to an unjust past: the Legacy Museum, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Brooke visited the memorial and the museum, and spoke with Stevenson about how the two are meant to confront "the true toxin that poisoned our nation."
This segment originally aired on June 1st, 2018. It was re-broadcast on July 3, 2020, along with the rest of the "The Worst Thing We've Ever Done" episode.
Hosted by Brooke Gladstone
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Produced by WNYC Studios
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Nkyinkyim Sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Equal Justice Initiative
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Nkyinkyim Installation, a sculpture by Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, stands at the entrance of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. It depicts the trauma of enslavement and racial violence. Watch the video for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this piece at the artist's studio in Ghana and its installation on the grounds of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Video by Bryan G. Stevenson
The Equal Justice Initiative works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality. Visit our website to learn more: eji.org